Our Lady of Velankanni Festival

About the Event

Sacred Heart Tamil Catholic Group celebrates the 6th annual
Festival Celebration of Our Lady of Good Health, at St. Cyprian
Church 192 Leota Avenue, Sunnyvale CA 94086. The Flag Blessing
& Hoisting will be on Fri, Aug 30 2019 at 6:30 PM, followed by
Holy Mass at 7:00 PM in the church. All are welcome to join.

About Velankanni

Human
beings are happy when they enjoy good health. But God has created
man with a body and soul. While the body is mortal, the soul,
which has been created in the image and likeness of God, is
immortal. The soul of man is enriched by God's grace, which
enables him to lead a holy life. His intimacy with his creator,
by a life of grace, caused him to enjoy peace and inner joy.
There are, however, dangers to ruin the happiness and well being
of humans in all these three spheres of life-his physical,
spiritual and social. Mary our Mother of good health shows her
deep concern for all her children who suffer from every kind of
ailment and obtains healing for them from her Divine Son. Mary
sets right such shattered relationships when her children
approach her for help with absolute trust in her powerful
intercession. Ever since our Blessed Mother set foot on the
sacred soil of Velankanni some 400 years ago, she has been
pouring out her tender Motherly care and compassion on all her
children who are tossed about on the sea of suffering and who
come to her shrine at Velankanni seeking her help. Innumerable
are the favours obtained by her devotees, who approach her,
irrespective of their caste or creed. That is why she is revered
in Velankanni as the Mother of Good Health.

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Oh Most Holy Virgin! You were chosen by the Most Adorable
Trinity from all eternity to be the most pure Mother of Jesus.
Permit me, your humble and devoted servant, to remind you of
the joy received in the instant of the Most Sacred Incarnation
of our Divine Lord and during the nine months you carried Him
in your chaste womb. I wish most sincerely that I could renew,
or even increase that joy, by the fervour of my Prayers.

Oh! Tender Mother of the afflicted! Grant me under my
present necessities that special protection You have promised
to those who devoutly commemorate this ineffable joy. Relying
on the infinite mercies of your Divine Son, trusting in the
promise which He has made that those who ask should receive,
and penetrated with confidence in your powerful prayers, I most
humbly entreat you intercede for me. I beg you to obtain for me
the favours which I petition for in this novena, if it be the
Holy Will of God to grant them; to ask for me whatever graces I
most stand in need of.

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requests)

I desire by this novena, which I now
offer in your honour, to prove the lively confidence I have in
your intercession. Accept it, I beseech you, in honour of that
supernatural love and joy, with which your Immaculate Heart was
replenished during the abode of your divine Son in your womb;
in veneration of which, I offer you the sentiments of my heart.